Ibm Quotes

“I later became more interested in equal rights for women in the work place because of what was happening at IBM. One of the women at Remington Rand had previously been a system service girl for IBM during the war. After a system was installed, a system service girl would go out and show the users how it worked. She was the liaison between the users and the computer company. She was married and had been fired to make room for a returning veteran. When the war ended, IBM rehired all of its former employees who had left to join the military, then fired all of the married women with jobs that could be filled by men.”

“How youMore people will learn about IBM from Wikipedia in the coming years than from IBM itself.”

“The next thing is: we can make IBM even better. We brought IBM back but we're gunning for leadership.”

“If being the biggest company was a guarantee of success, we'd all be using IBM computers and driving GM cars.”

“The typical project design time for a large company like IBM - and they keep track of this - is a little over four years.”

“We can learn from IBM's successful history that you don't have to have the best product to become number one. You don't even have to have a good product.”

“Every time we've moved ahead in IBM, it was because someone was willing to take a chance, put his head on the block, and try something new.”

“I remember having computers at my parents' house growing up. We had different desktop PCs, but my first laptop was an IBM ThinkPad laptop. It was big, bulky, slow and terrible.”

“It was not until the appearance of cyberpunk in the 1980s that SF began to grapple in a broadly meaningful way with the reality of computers as something other than giant mainframes tended by crewcut IBM nerds.”

“Innovation has nothing to do with how many R & D dollars you have. When Apple came up with the Mac, IBM was spending at least 100 times more on R & D. It's not about money. It's about the people you have, how you're led, and how much you get it.”